Salvatore J. Turco

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Best Publications

• The lipophosphoglycan of Leishmania parasites

  Salvatore J. Turco;Albert Descoteaux

  665
  Citations

• Proposal for a common oligosaccharide intermediate in the synthesis of membrane glycoproteins.

  Phillips W. Robbins;S.Catherine Hubbard;S.J. Turco;Dyann F. Wirth

  501
  Citations

• Lipophosphoglycan is a virulence factor distinct from related glycoconjugates in the protozoan parasite Leishmania major

  Gerald F. Späth;Linda Epstein;Ben Leader;Steven M. Singer

  398
  Citations

• Use of the green fluorescent protein as a marker in transfected Leishmania.

  D. Sean Ha;James K. Schwarz;Salvatore J. Turco;Stephen M. Beverley

  383
  Citations

• Developmental modification of lipophosphoglycan during the differentiation of Leishmania major promastigotes to an infectious stage.

  Malcolm J. McConville;Salvatore J. Turco;Michael A. J. Ferguson;David L. Sacks

  359
  Citations

• The role(s) of lipophosphoglycan (LPG) in the establishment of Leishmania major infections in mammalian hosts

  Gerald F. Späth;L. A. Garraway;Salvatore J. Turco;Stephen M. Beverley

  357
  Citations

• A Role for Insect Galectins in Parasite Survival

  Shaden Kamhawi;Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao;Van M. Pham;Sanjeev Kumar

  352
  Citations

• Stage-specific adhesion of Leishmania promastigotes to the sandfly midgut.

  Paulo F. P. Pimenta;Salvatore J. Turco;Malcolm J. McConville;Phillip G. Lawyer

  343
  Citations

• Glycoconjugates in Leishmania infectivity.

  Albert Descoteaux;Salvatore J Turco

  316
  Citations

• The role of phosphoglycans in Leishmania–sand fly interactions

  David L. Sacks;Govind Modi;Edgar Rowton;Gerald Späth

  297
  Citations

• Retention and loss of RNA interference pathways in trypanosomatid protozoans.

  Lon-Fye Lye;Katherine Owens;Huafang Shi;Silvane M. F. Murta

  288
  Citations

• Stage-specific binding of Leishmania donovani to the sand fly vector midgut is regulated by conformational changes in the abundant surface lipophosphoglycan.

  D. L. Sacks;P. F. P. Pimenta;M. J. Mcconville;P. Schneider

  276
  Citations

• Evidence that the vectorial competence of phlebotomine sand flies for different species of Leishmania is controlled by structural polymorphisms in the surface lipophosphoglycan

  Paulo F. P. Pimenta;Elvira M. B. Saraiva;Edgar Rowton;Govind B. Modi

  264
  Citations

• A Subset of Liver NK T Cells Is Activated during Leishmania donovani Infection by CD1d-bound Lipophosphoglycan

  Joseph L. Amprey;Joseph L. Amprey;Jin S. Im;Salvatore J. Turco;Henry W. Murray

  255
  Citations

• An in vitro system for developmental and genetic studies of Leishmania donovani phosphoglycans.

  Sophie Goyard;Hiroaki Segawa;Jennifer Gordon;Melissa Showalter

  253
  Citations

• CHARACTERIZATION OF DEVELOPMENTALLY-REGULATED ACTIVITIES IN AXENIC AMASTIGOTES OF LEISHMANIA DONOVANI

  Yehoshua Saar;Asamoa Ransford;Ella Waldman;Salam Mazareb

  239
  Citations

• Lipophosphoglycan (LPG) and the identification of virulence genes in the protozoan parasite Leishmania

  Stephen M. Beverley;Salvatore J. Turco

  232
  Citations

• Galactofuranose metabolism: a potential target for antimicrobial chemotherapy

  L L Pedersen;S J Turco

  230
  Citations

• Is lipophosphoglycan a virulence factor? A surprising diversity between Leishmania species

  Salvatore J Turco;Gerald F Späth;Stephen M Beverley

  225
  Citations

• Persistence Without Pathology in Phosphoglycan-Deficient Leishmania major

  Gerald F. Späth;Lon-Fey Lye;Hiroaki Segawa;David L. Sacks

  219
  Citations